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The Canon RF 28mm f/2.8 STM is an exceptionally lightweight, ultra-compact pancake-style wide-angle prime lens designed natively for full-frame Canon RF-mount mirrorless cameras. Serving as the ultimate low-profile, walkaround lens, it sits nearly flush against the camera body, making it an ideal choice for travel, street photography, vlogging, and daily snapshots. By combining a bright f/2.8 aperture, advanced aspherical optics, and an incredibly affordable price point, this sleek lens delivers an unobtrusive shooting experience without compromising on corner-to-corner sharpness.
Ultra-Slim Pancake Profile & Bright Wide Optics
Discreet Pancake Form Factor: Engineered with a razor-thin, lightweight physical profile that transforms your full-frame camera into a pocketable setup, perfect for candid street journalism and effortless all-day travel tracking.
Versatile Dual-Coverage Perspective: Provides a classic, storytelling 28mm wide-angle field of view on full-frame sensors. When mounted on APS-C format crop sensor cameras, it shifts to a highly natural 45mm equivalent normal perspective.
Bright f/2.8 Aperture Speed: The fast f/2.8 maximum aperture strikes an ideal balance between light-gathering performance and a compact footprint. It enables clean handheld shooting in available lighting conditions while providing elegant depth-of-field isolation.
Rounded 7-Blade Diaphragm: Incorporates a seven-blade aperture array to cast out-of-focus background details and specular highlights into a smooth, visually pleasing blur.
Advanced Glass Formulations & Smooth STM AF
Three Precision Aspherical Elements: Built with three high-grade aspherical glass elements to aggressively counteract geometric distortion, field curvature, and spherical aberrations, ensuring crisp rendering across the entire frame.
Super Spectra Coating: Optical surfaces feature Canon’s multi-layered Super Spectra treatment, which systematically repels surface reflections, internal flare, and ghosting to preserve rich contrast and color neutrality under harsh sunlight.
Gear-Type STM Stepping Motor: Driven by a smooth, gear-type STM stepping autofocus motor that delivers quick, pinpoint, and near-silent focal tracking. This ultra-quiet drive mechanism is perfectly optimized for fluid video autofocus pulls and crisp still capture.
Dynamic Close-Up Performance: Offers a close minimum focusing distance of just 9.1 inches (23 cm) with a 0.17x maximum magnification ratio, allowing you to step into close quarters for compelling detail shots while maintaining great background context.
Customizable Tactile Handling
Configurable Lens Control Ring: Features a physical, dual-purpose control ring on the barrel. Using an integrated selector switch, the ring can be toggled between standard manual focusing or customized to adjust exposure parameters directly from the lens—including aperture, ISO, shutter speed, or exposure compensation.
Threaded Hood Compatibility: Fully compatible with the separately available Canon EW-55 threaded lens hood to provide additional glare protection and mechanical safety for the front element.
Technical Specifications
Focal Length: 28mm (45mm Equivalent on Canon APS-C Sensors)
Aperture Range: f/2.8 to f/22
Lens Mount Type: Canon RF (Full-Frame & APS-C Compatible)
Filter Thread Diameter: 55mm
Minimum Focus Distance: 9.1″ (23 cm)
Maximum Magnification Ratio: 0.17x
Lens Construction: 8 Elements in 6 Groups
Weight: Approx. 4.2 oz (120 grams)
